About this episode

RECALL: Act One explores the experiences of boys at a military academy in Miami during a tumultuous historical period.

RECALL: Act One In February 1961, while America watches Cuba on television and tells itself the next war will belong to someone else, a dying military academy in Miami is still teaching boys how to stand straight, take orders, and become men. Written by Academy Award nominee Bruce Davison, once optioned and held by the great Carroll O’Connor with eyes on a Pacino lead, RECALL is a funny, savage, deeply human coming-of-age drama about abandoned boys, broken fathers, old soldiers, Cuban exiles, secret weapons, and the first terrible lesson of history: nations do not only go to war with armies. Sometimes they go to war with children who still think they are playing. Act One begins with Stephen Lishinsky arriving at Miami Military Academy, a bright Pennsylvania kid who volunteered for the brochure version of honor and discipline. What he finds is a parade field, a dying commandant, a school already being swallowed by the future, and two cadets handcuffed to a howitzer before morning formation. Inside “A” Company, Lishinsky meets the boys who will become his education. Slouch is a Brooklyn-bred survivor with a cigarette in his mouth, a wound behind every joke, and a…

Topics covered

• coming-of-age
• military academy
• Cuban exiles
• father-son relationships
• historical drama

Keywords

• military academy
• coming-of-age
• Cuban exiles
• historical drama
• father-son relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Miami, Pennsylvania, Cuba

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